Award winning Cape wines.  Buy direct from the farm on your wine expeditions, or go to wine boutiques and ask.  Start your wine experience with a tasting at the impressive new wine bar, Enoteca, at the visitors center.  

Honeybush tea, caffeine free and delicate, or the better known Rooibos tea.  Buy these from specialty tea and coffee shops or supermarkets for a light and healthy take-away taste of the cape.  

From Cape Town tourism visitors center in Burg Street, roughly carved animals, tightly woven wire platters, smartly designed picture frames made from coke cans and madiba t-shirts that proclaim your allegiance to The Man.

Go to ‘Church Street Mall’ and wander on up to the Pan market (76 Long St).  This is a treasure of art and artifacts, fabric and jewellery from all over Africa.  

Fabric by Philani Nutrition Center can be found at Interiors.  Here you’ll find wonderful hand and screen-printed fabric in original designs by the women of Crossroads, an informal settlement north of Cape Town.  

Pewter, by Carol Boyes, can be found right around the world now, but it was born and branded in Cape Town.  

Tough takkies are leather summer sandals made in Cape Town and sold at Greenmarket Square, in the city center.